Segregation and Inequality in Public Goods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231803 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Trounstine (0000-0003-4364-2719, University of California, Merced, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 709-725 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12227 |
| OpenAlex | W2122677845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 82 |
| References cited | 43 |
Many U.S. cities function without regular problems. They have well‐kept roads, sewers that never overflow, and public parks with swing sets and restrooms. Others struggle to maintain balanced budgets, fail to adequately equip or staff their police forces, and offer little assistance to residents of limited means. What explains these differences? I argue that segregation along racial lines contributes to public goods inequalities. Racially segregated cities are also politically polarized cities, making collective investment more challenging and public goods expenditures lower. I provide evidence for this argument using election data from 25 large cities and demographic data matched to city finances in more than 2,600 places. To handle the problem of endogeneity, I instrument for segregation using the number of waterways in a city. I find that segregated municipalities are more politically polarized and spend less on a wide range of public goods
Argument (complex analysis · Demographic economics · Economics · Endogeneity · Function (biology · Inequality · Investment (military · Microeconomics · Political science · Public good · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
The changing geography of social mobility in the United States
Pandemic Shocks and Household Spending
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures
Urban space, sprawl, and intergenerational mobility
Unequal Responsiveness in City Service Delivery
Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip
Covid-19
Hometown Inequality
When does state capacity Work? Social fragmentation and public goods provision in rural Japan
Revisiting the Theory of Government Failure in the Face of Heterogeneous Demands
Racial/ethnic residential segregation and the availability of opioid and substance use treatment facilities in US counties, 2009–2019
State capacity, political competition and public goods provision
Explaining Diversionary Domestic Conflict
Policing Socio-Geographic Boundaries and Inequality
When Cues Collide
Building Public Schools in the City
State Capacity, Social Fragmentation, and Public Goods Provision
Reimagining Public Safety
What projects get built? The distinctive characteristics of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects in high-opportunity neighborhoods
Status inequality and public goods
Fractal urbanism
Autocracy and human capital
Segregation and internal mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey
The impact of ethnic segregation on schooling outcomes in Mandate Palestine
Local power and the location of subsidized renters in comparative perspective
Zone defense
Beyond Nimby-ism
Community Diversity and Donor Control
Segregation in Hyderabad
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities
Residential segregation and public services in urban India
What explains local policy cleavages? Examining the policy preferences of public officials at the municipal level
African American and Latino discrimination complaints
The Power of Place? Testing the Geographic Determinants of African‐American and White Voter Turnout
Fifty years as the fourth pillar of public administration
Does industrialization affect segregation? Evidence from nineteenth-century Cairo
When restrictive economic zoning leads to racial segregation
Are minorities free riders? Applying the social resistance framework to public goods production in Central‐Eastern Europe
Perceptions of Partisanship in Local American Politics
Redrawing the South
Cultural Entropy, Innovation, and Growth
Do special districts divide communities
Company Towns
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health
Minority Support
Draining the Swamp
Measuring Conflict in Local Politics
Policy Design and the Politics of City Revenue
It’s Not Just Welfare
Boundaries and Speed Bumps
Exit or Invest
Past Place, Present Prejudice
The Politics of Potholes
Who Pays for Government? Descriptive Representation and Exploitative Revenue Sources
Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation, and Local Public Goods
The Supply-Equity Trade-Off
People Like Us? How Mass Preferences Are Shaped by Economic Inequality and Racial Diversity
How Relevant is Nimbyism to Citizens’ Support for the Large-Scale Deployment of Public Goods? Experimental Evidence from 5G Antenna Placement in Switzerland
Racial Isolation Drives Racial Voting
Who Participates in Local Government? Evidence from Meeting Minutes
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government
Institutional legacies and temporary assistance for needy families spending decisions
Ethnic diversity and political trust at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic
Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Discrimination
Elections, governance, and polarization in Indonesian villages
Context and Contact
The Segregation Effect
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
Urban Pressures and Innovations
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters
Seeing racial avoidance on New York City streets
Where Does the Black-White Life Expectancy Gap Come From? The Deadly Consequences of Residential Segregation
Party Competition and Coalitional Stability
Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods
Ethnic Segregation and Public Goods
Family Stress and Coping Among African Americans in the Age of Covid-19
School Closures and Rural Population Decline
Ethnoreligious diversity and state-building
Immigration, segregation, and attitudes toward immigrants
Stratifying cities
Place-Based Partisanship
Southern politics in State and Nation
American apartheid
Racial Policies and Practices of Real Estate Brokers
Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities
Sharing America’s Neighborhoods
Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?
Are Ghettos Good or Bad
Community Composition and Collective Action
The Effect of Rising Income Inequality on Taxation and Public Expenditures
Demographic structure and the political economy of public education
Distinguishing the geographic levels and social dimensions of U.S. metropolitan segregation, 1960–2000
A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods
What Underlies Urban Politics? Race, Class, Ideology, Partisanship, and the Urban Vote
Residential Concentration, Political Socialization, and Voter Turnout
Back to the Black Belt
Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation
The Diversity Discount
Identifying and Understanding Perceived Inequities in Local Politics
Racial Threat”, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy
The Geographic Distribution of Political Preferences
The Centrality of Race in American Politics
Seeing Difference
Reexamining Racial Attitudes
What the Demolition of Public Housing Teaches Us about the Impact of Racial Threat on Political Behavior
Intergroup Prejudice in Multiethnic Settings
Measures of Multigroup Segregation
Reconsidering the Environmental Determinants of White Racial Attitudes
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions
How White Attitudes Vary with the Racial Composition of Local Populations
The Dimensions of Residential Segregation
The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation
Emergent Ghettos
American Apartheid
In the Eye of the Beholder
| Unique citing works | 82 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 82 |